I always wondered why systems like the Retron didn't come with a USB port so you could just plug in an extenal disc drive for disc based game support. I was told this was actually because the one thing these clone consoles can't ship with are system BIOS for optical drives. Which are very very still under copyright/patent protections. This suggests to me, that this box will require you to provide your own BIOS from... somewhere. Granted since the description says it permanently dumps the game rom to the system (something the Retron5 explicitly does not do), its really just an emulation box. Just load it up with illegal ROMs.
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Re: Modular Console RetroBlox Could Be The Ultimate Old-School Gaming Platform
I always wondered why systems like the Retron didn't come with a USB port so you could just plug in an extenal disc drive for disc based game support. I was told this was actually because the one thing these clone consoles can't ship with are system BIOS for optical drives. Which are very very still under copyright/patent protections. This suggests to me, that this box will require you to provide your own BIOS from... somewhere. Granted since the description says it permanently dumps the game rom to the system (something the Retron5 explicitly does not do), its really just an emulation box. Just load it up with illegal ROMs.